7 Most Overused Props In Hollywood History - Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder

[Music] hello Internet and welcome to another gamechanging episode of obsessive pop culture disorder the only show on the internet that I from time to time completely forget to do welcome to badassing your way through history I am Daniel O'Brien how Fu you today's episode takes us [Music] through I don't understand that what does that mean uhhuh can you give me an example Le okay cool before Ghostbusters was a movie about female Ghostbusters that made a bunch of idiots angry on the internet before a script had even been written it was a movie about male Ghostbusters that would have still made idiots angry on the internet had the internet been around in 1984 busting in addition to being one of the many things that makes you and I and all of us feel good requires a bunch of very complicated and high-tech equipment because these are back off scientists after all so when it came to designing their psychokinetic energy meter they took a shoot polisher from Sears and put some stuff on it finally a device that could clean shoes and also take the relative temperature of books I guess this is hot R naturally after creating such an iconic Gadget the prop team let it go to the Studio's prop Department that's why a ghost detecting shoe Shiner somehow pops up and they live tracking down Rowdy R Piper 3950 lock the elevators down and then in Suburban Commando helping pinpoint Hulk Hogan's [Music] location cuz after Ghostbusters all was used for was provide killing squads the ability to track down moderately famous wrestlers damn that's actually more dangerous than trying to find ghosts little shop Little Shop of Horrors is a movie musical about a talking plan from space that eats people because movies are great and being alive is so awesome the movie has everything Rick Moranis as the Romantic male lead giving unearned confidence to nerdy twerps and glasses for decades killer plants and of course Bill Murray Steve Martin's whole thing in that movie involves his natural talents for causing things pain which is why he has those tools that are ridiculous even by Dental standards apparently Tim Burton must have seen that movie which again involves motorcycle driving dentist and Doh singing plants because life is the best and decided to use the tools for his own purposes you see what I have to work with here as the tools used by the Joker's doctor in Batman the same tools Frank Oz thinks dentists need to give Bill Murray an orgasm yes are the tools that Burton thinks a doctor would need to heal someone who fell in a vat of acid because whatever also where's that doctor even operating from this a wet basement with a single light bulb you're going to need more there you go yeah see guess we should have invested in a second light bro you bro the same weird orange prop who in the hell is titling these sections are we even oh yeah that just a weird orange okay and you might think the meaningless prop can exist here because that's airplane 2 and the joke is specifically about the props uselessness these red lights keep moving back and forth aside from that this thing seems to have no other function what whatsoever but here it is again in the last star fighter this is all highly irregular yeah great definitely you got to you got to tighten those tops I all orange electricity will pop on out oh look here's again in Star Trek and O here again in other Star Trek Voyager and EnV because in movie language glowing and moving equal scientific because the people who make movies have never seen actual science before also sidebar the stupid thing was in two different Star Trek and a scene with Captain Kirk that's nope there nothing let's compare a few vastly different things first it's Curb Your Enthusiasm now let's look at La [Music] story and finally Beverly Hills Cop notice anything at all linking them I mean probably you notice the license play number is the same but only because I I mean the title card said license plate so it's you didn't notice it we told you it it's fine it's a license plate Gat 123 the plate uses G because that's one of the letter combinations that can't be replicated in real life by the state of California California has so many different Productions going on that the DMV actually blocked out letter combinations just so the entertainment industry could have plates that no real driver could ever have even shows like the xfiles and Art House directors like David Lynch get in on the joke although it is David Lynch so naturally it's a mind like the license plate hired a Hitman to kill another license plate and then rubbed up on each other it's okay moving on pretty much is that as specific as we can get for fine it's fine let's just burn through it No Country for Old Men there's a question that's 70 show Scrubs Married with Children notice the paper instead of say using local papers or making a new one for a relatively cheap price most Productions go for a newspaper prop made by a company called Earl Haze press that particular model has not been changed from the late ' 60s and always has the same pieces on one a warehouse burn burning down and the house trying to okay a compromise bill with the president while TV shows like Charmed and Lou have used it high budget movies have used it as well because why the hell not it's not like you just get a newspaper literally anywhere even Back to the Future too and Casper used one side of it showing Marty's father being murdered and a ghost stopping a crime but still going on about that damn compromised housing bill that woman's probably in real life dead now probably right that's how you write a title God damn space suit prop Masters often decide that making a unique prop or costume can be too much effort and descended upon the movie industry's equivalent of the surplus store so say it is the early 6s you're working on a Sci-Fi show in Britain and you're suddenly called to help make a space suit what do you choose a surplus RAF high altitude suit developed a decade ago well surely it's kind of space-like besides who'd ever see the show again well unfortunately it's Doctor Who so the old retr future space suit stays on forever u o 132 Flash forward to the late '70s there are still tons of these suits around but this time you're working on a sci-fi movie so you give the lizard alien the same suit part specifically the guy in the back bounty hunters we don't need that scum this guy his name is BOS and you just gave him the same space suit as the guy from Doctor Who seriously a high altitude pressure suit sounds like something that shouldn't fall into civilian hands and we gave it to BOS a Troian Bounty Hunter he said without having to look it up speaking of sci-fi military equipment let's talk about Starship Troopers movie about Troopers and the various places to which they Starship pay attention to the uniforms no well several movie Crews did they like them so much or were too lazy to make their own unique variant that they just reuse the uniform over and over again look at the eighth best Planet of the Apes movie of all time what's good for a futuristic Marine is good enough for a chimp Moto cop but what about arresting a brown coat how about Power Rangers and there it is Starship Troopers to Power Rangers that is a step up down it's kind of a lateral move I guess well that's all this time join us next week when our topic will be nine photos of stock image models looking at rabbits I'll send that to BuzzFeed sell it to them episode canceled end of thing good night you are something special you are something special oh it's your professionalism that I respect what do you want F play W yeah get out hey everyone thank you so much for watching obsessive pop culture disorder uh let me know what I missed in the comments your eyes are better than mine find some other props that get reused in movies and let us know and maybe we'll make a sequel to this or we'll all just talk about props just like oh this this like like little monkey statues in this movie and that movie and I'll be like yeah and then we're friends

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Keywords: Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder, Hollywood, Theatrical Property, Comedy (Film Genre), Ghostbusters (Film), PKE Meter, Daniel O'Brien, sketch, comedy, cracked, cracked.com, funny, Parody, Humor, Spoof, Sketch Comedy (TV Genre), Star Trek, They live, Surburban Comando, Little Shop Of Horrors (Film), Batman: The Animated Series (Award-Winning Work), Steve Martin, Bill Murray (Film Actor), Tim Burton, Airplane II: The Sequel (Film), STAR WARS, Starship Troopers, Bossk, Power Rangers

Id: h-QxhmnmJBY

Length: 8min 3sec (483 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 06 2015